Extension window shade and curtain hanger.



PATBNTED NOV. 26, 1907.

W. WERTMAN.

EXTENSION WINDOW SHADE AND CURTAIN HANGER. APPLIOATIONIILED MAR.25,1907.

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PATENT OFFIQE.

WILLIAM WERTHAN, OF DANVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

EXTENSION WINDOW SHADE AND CURTAIN HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 26, 1907,.

Application filed March 25, 1907, Serial No. 364,268.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM IVERTMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Danville, in the county of Montour and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in an Extension im dow Shade and Curtain I'Ianger, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a combined curtain and shade, or drapery holder of the extension type, commonly applicable to win dows, doors or other openings of varying dimensions.

The invention has for one of its objects, an improvement simplifying the construction of devices of this character, so as to be comparatively easy and inexpensive to manufacture, being of simple and practicable dcsign, and conveniently adjustable.

A further object of the invention is to provide a bracket composed of sheet metal sections each having its outer end formed with forwardly extending arms or projections for receiving both the curtain rod and shade or drapery roller.

WVith these objects in view, my invention comprises the various features of construction and arrangements of parts which will be more fully described hereinafter and particularly set forth in the claims appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates the invention, Figures 1 and 2. are plan and front views respectively of the combined curtain and shade holder. Figs. 3 and 4. are transverse sections taken respectively on the lines 33, and 4-4 of Fig. 2.

Similar reference characters are used to designate similar parts throughout the drawings.

Referring to the drawings A designates the bracket of the holder comprising two extensible sections 1 and 2 preferably pressed from sheet metal.

Each section comprises a back plate portion for the pieces 3, and a forwardly extending integral arm for the end plates 4, used in supporting both the curtain rod and shade roller; the back plates 3, are provided with partially enveloping lugs or ears 5, shaped to receive the body portion of the other back plate 3. That is to say that the ears 5, of one section engage with the top and bottom of the back plate of the other section so that the two sections may have a relative lateral sliding movement for lengthening and shortening the bracket to accommodate windows and the like, of different width.

Extending laterally on each plate 3, is a rib 6, formed by pressing the plate forwardly and so arranged that the rib bulge or lateral projection of one plate fits into that of the other, so that the interlitting ribs serve as guides auxiliarly to the lugs 5, for maintaining one section with respect to the other; furthermore, these lateral ribs serve to reinforce and strengthen the back plates of both sections. 7 The forwardly extending arms 4, are each provided with ribs 7 and 8, formed. by forcing the metal forwardly thereby strengthening the structure; near the extremities of the upper portion of the parts 4t are openings 9 for the reception of the curtain rod 10, which latter may be of any approved form, but preferably composed of sections connected in telescoping relation so that the curtain rod may be adjusted laterally together with the sections of the bracket.

At the lower portion of the forwardly extending parts 4 are apertures 11, one for receiving the fixed pintle of the shade roller, and the other for receiving the pintle of the spring mechanism at the opposite end of the roller.

In the back plate 3, of the bracket is a series of openings 19, for securing the bracket to a suitable support.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the advantages of this construction, and the method of operation will be readily apparent, and it will be understood that minor changes may be made, when desirable, within the scope of the claims.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a curtain rod and shade roller holder, the combination with a metal bracket comprised of two sections each containing a plurality of holes adapted to be engaged with sustaining means, said sections being movable longitudinallyto each other and having in terconnccting ribs and grooves and partially enveloping portions on the edges thereof, of integral arms on one end of each of said sections extending outwardly at right angles In testimony whereof I have signed my thereto, stiffening ribs formed in each arm, name to this specification in the presence of said ribs being continuous with those in the the two subscribing witnesses. 10' bracket sections, the upper front portion of WILLIAM WERTMAN.

5 each arm being adapted to receive a curtain Witnesses:

rod and the lower front portion of each arm G. EDW. ROAT,

being adapted to receive a shade roller. STEPHEN NEVINS. 

